dog on fire

baby is found dead in
the back seat

is red and blistered
and the air between his
tiny hands
too hot to breathe

the world of
human error too
large to comprehend

Andy Peutherer

NEW WORK AT DUANE'S POETREE

http://duanespoetree.blogspot.com/2016/10/john-sweet-writes.html

SPIRITUALIZED

I'm living proof that you don't have to use heroin to enjoy these tunes.  Their first 3 albums (and that groovy live one, "Fucked Up Inside") were stellar, as was much of Spacemen 3's output.  Spiritualized was one of my definitive bands of the early 90s but, then again, I was kind of a freak.......

sea of tears

reach yr dead hands up to
the surface

teach them to burn flags

to assassinate kings

all solutions create new problems,
and so the trick
is selective blindness

sat there in the back yard and
pointed out jupiter and
venus to my sons

spent most of my time
worrying that i was failing them

days got colder until we
ended up at zero

sick at christmas

sky of dirty glass

say to her i am not you and
then say you are not wakoski

say you are not atwood

it helps to be alone

it helps to believe in
redemption

we will all end up dead no
matter how many gods
clutter our rooms

GABBA

That's just something else........

REVIEW OF ENEMY

Just stumbled upon this.  Many thanks to John Dorsey.  Very small print run, as was the wont back in those dying days of paper.  Good stuff, tho.  Haven't heard from/about Debbie in quite a while, which is a bummer.

“enemy”

by john sweet
Published by Pink Anarchkitty Press/2004
Editor: Debbie Kirk



The design for humanity, if there is one, is simple, and its wires, are nothing less than crossed. Still, the poetry of John Sweet never leaves it. In fact, sweet has built a career on it.

I’ve been reading Sweet’s poetry in little magazines for years, and it has always left me sick to my stomach. It’s supposed to I think. His images being both melancholy and sweet.

His latest book, “enemy” is no exception. This mammoth of a chapbook, at 33pgs, is all about starting over. It contains images of murdered children, red seas that have yet to be parted, and a wayward god, who’s spirit seems like a lost voice, an echo, in a lost world. Sweet is an artist, who is working in the warmth of flesh, in place of marble. His words work, almost effortlessly, to remove more than a few layers society’s dead skin, and burn the tip of your tongue in the process.

With “enemy” Sweet is trying to protect our children, our own lost innocence, through words, with the rhythm of a staggered prize fighter. His lines have the calmness of a rabid dog, a spirit animal, set loose to search for clues, in a world that rarely has any answers. We are all starving, all shadows. We may never know who invented the wheel.

What can I say about “enemy”? Nothing. Just read it. Sell your blood for it—you’ve certainly sold it for less. John Sweet is waiting for the second coming in upstate NY, you should wait with him, just pack a suitcase with a copy of “enemy” tucked inside, divinity might be a while, and you’ll need a way to check for a pulse, in a world that keeps getting colder, and that no longer catches snowflakes on the tip of its tongue.

-john dorsey

For your own copy
SEND $5 to-
Pink Anarchkitty Press
C/O Debbie Kirk
2413 Collingwood blvd.B224
Toledo, OH 43620

AGE OF FEAR

APPROACHING THE DREAM FACTORY, 6:00 A.M.

SERG WIADERNY

SOME LOWBROW HUMOR

BUT GODDAMN IS IT FUNNY.......

KEN BUSHE

KAMIKAZE BOY

"The GOP has

a suicide bomber

as their nominee," said

Texas-based political

consultant

Matt Mackowiak.

one for the would-be emperors, now and forever

find out too late what an

empty threat god really is

embrace the subtle power of knowledge
of rebellion against moral bankruptcy

all those petty tyrants in the crosshairs,

and who will remember their
deaths in fifty years?

who will mourn them?

drink their blood and dance on
their graves and then
all that’s left is the limitless future

ANOTHER FINE LIST BROUGHT TO YOU BY THE THOUGHT POLICE

This one can be found at

http://archive.postdesk.com/banned-books-list-reasons-why-censorship


Not limited to books banned only in America, so you can get a broader view of how most governments in the world try to control the thoughts and ideas of the people they rule. 

Again, thought it would be a list with particular current relevance, seeing as how a candidate for a major political party (and several of his cronies and ass-lickers) are very excited to do away with personal freedoms if given the chance. 

SUNSET

I'M AS SURPRISED AS YOU ARE

Copies still available from my earth-shaking victory of the first LUMMOX POETRY PRIZE.

Who would've guessed I had it in me?

http://www.lummoxpress.com/lc/dreaming-monsters/

A NATION OF FUCKWADS TELLING YOU HOW TO THINK

So, I have memories of 10 or so election years and, even if I didn't have that many (even if I were a visiting alien from light years away), I'd have to assume that this is one of the most fucked up "democratic" election races ever held.  Has anyone actually discussed an actual issue yet?  I can never tell when I read the news.  I know that Trump likes grabbing pussy, and that he's not overly fond of a free press, or free speech in general.    And he seems to have the hots for his daughter.  I know that John McCain and Ted Cruz are political whores with no personal dignity whatsoever.  Other than that, I haven't learned much from these chuckleheads.

But this isn't a story about political douchebags.  Although it ties in, sort of, as it's about freedom of speech, and what I think is a list that many of Trump's supporters could very easily get behind.  And it's just one more indication that, despite all of the xenophobes who like to go on about how progressive and enlightened Americans are, Devo's theories about humanity are probably closer to the reality of the situation.

Book banning!  Woo hoo!  Definitely the sign of an enlightened, democratic society.  Gotta love the idea that books (and the ideas they contain) are dangerous.  Without further ado, and with thanks to the good people at ada.org.........

Top 100 Banned/Challenged Books: 2000-2009

1. Harry Potter (series), by J.K. Rowling
2. Alice series, by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
3. The Chocolate War, by Robert Cormier
4. And Tango Makes Three, by Justin Richardson/Peter Parnell
5. Of Mice and Men, by John Steinbeck
6. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, by Maya Angelou
7. Scary Stories (series), by Alvin Schwartz
8. His Dark Materials (series), by Philip Pullman
9. ttyl; ttfn; l8r g8r (series), by Lauren Myracle
10. The Perks of Being a Wallflower, by Stephen Chbosky
11. Fallen Angels, by Walter Dean Myers
12. It’s Perfectly Normal, by Robie Harris
13. Captain Underpants (series), by Dav Pilkey
14. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, by Mark Twain
15. The Bluest Eye, by Toni Morrison
16. Forever, by Judy Blume
17. The Color Purple, by Alice Walker
18. Go Ask Alice, by Anonymous
19. Catcher in the Rye, by J.D. Salinger
20. King and King, by Linda de Haan
21. To Kill A Mockingbird, by Harper Lee
22. Gossip Girl (series), by Cecily von Ziegesar
23. The Giver, by Lois Lowry
24. In the Night Kitchen, by Maurice Sendak
25. Killing Mr. Griffen, by Lois Duncan
26. Beloved, by Toni Morrison
27. My Brother Sam Is Dead, by James Lincoln Collier
28. Bridge To Terabithia, by Katherine Paterson
29. The Face on the Milk Carton, by Caroline B. Cooney
30. We All Fall Down, by Robert Cormier
31. What My Mother Doesn’t Know, by Sonya Sones
32. Bless Me, Ultima, by Rudolfo Anaya
33. Snow Falling on Cedars, by David Guterson
34. The Earth, My Butt, and Other Big, Round Things, by Carolyn Mackler
35. Angus, Thongs, and Full Frontal Snogging, by Louise Rennison
36. Brave New World, by Aldous Huxley
37. It’s So Amazing, by Robie Harris
38. Arming America, by Michael Bellasiles
39. Kaffir Boy, by Mark Mathabane
40. Life is Funny, by E.R. Frank
41. Whale Talk, by Chris Crutcher
42. The Fighting Ground, by Avi
43. Blubber, by Judy Blume
44. Athletic Shorts, by Chris Crutcher
45. Crazy Lady, by Jane Leslie Conly
46. Slaughterhouse-Five, by Kurt Vonnegut
47. The Adventures of Super Diaper Baby: The First Graphic Novel by George Beard and Harold Hutchins, the creators of Captain Underpants, by Dav Pilkey
48. Rainbow Boys, by Alex Sanchez
49. One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, by Ken Kesey
50. The Kite Runner, by Khaled Hosseini
51. Daughters of Eve, by Lois Duncan
52. The Great Gilly Hopkins, by Katherine Paterson
53. You Hear Me?, by Betsy Franco
54. The Facts Speak for Themselves, by Brock Cole
55. Summer of My German Soldier, by Bette Green
56. When Dad Killed Mom, by Julius Lester
57. Blood and Chocolate, by Annette Curtis Klause
58. Fat Kid Rules the World, by K.L. Going
59. Olive’s Ocean, by Kevin Henkes
60. Speak, by Laurie Halse Anderson
61. Draw Me A Star, by Eric Carle
62. The Stupids (series), by Harry Allard
63. The Terrorist, by Caroline B. Cooney
64. Mick Harte Was Here, by Barbara Park
65. The Things They Carried, by Tim O’Brien
66. Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry, by Mildred Taylor
67. A Time to Kill, by John Grisham
68. Always Running, by Luis Rodriguez
69. Fahrenheit 451, by Ray Bradbury
70. Harris and Me, by Gary Paulsen
71. Junie B. Jones (series), by Barbara Park
72. Song of Solomon, by Toni Morrison
73. What’s Happening to My Body Book, by Lynda Madaras
74. The Lovely Bones, by Alice Sebold
75. Anastasia (series), by Lois Lowry
76. A Prayer for Owen Meany, by John Irving
77. Crazy: A Novel, by Benjamin Lebert
78. The Joy of Gay Sex, by Dr. Charles Silverstein
79. The Upstairs Room, by Johanna Reiss
80. A Day No Pigs Would Die, by Robert Newton Peck
81. Black Boy, by Richard Wright
82. Deal With It!, by Esther Drill
83. Detour for Emmy, by Marilyn Reynolds
84. So Far From the Bamboo Grove, by Yoko Watkins
85. Staying Fat for Sarah Byrnes, by Chris Crutcher
86. Cut, by Patricia McCormick
87. Tiger Eyes, by Judy Blume
88. The Handmaid’s Tale, by Margaret Atwood
89. Friday Night Lights, by H.G. Bissenger
90. A Wrinkle in Time, by Madeline L’Engle
91. Julie of the Wolves, by Jean Craighead George
92. The Boy Who Lost His Face, by Louis Sachar
93. Bumps in the Night, by Harry Allard
94. Goosebumps (series), by R.L. Stine
95. Shade’s Children, by Garth Nix
96. Grendel, by John Gardner
97. The House of the Spirits, by Isabel Allende
98. I Saw Esau, by Iona Opte
99. Are You There, God?  It’s Me, Margaret, by Judy Blume
100. America: A Novel, by E.R. Frank


I advise you to read them all and become the biggest menace in your neighborhood.

DON BISHOP

Amazing impressionist landscapes, in both acrylics and oils.

A BLIND MAN LOST IN THE FOREST OF THE PROFANE

Again, getting a totally accurate color representation on these paintings is tricky.  It's probably a combination of the brighter parts of the two....